King John Loses the Crown Jewels
1216 King John of England loses his crown jewels in The Wash as the flood tide swamps his wagons, probably near Fosdyke, perhaps near Sutton Bridge
- 1609 Children's rhyme "Three Blind Mice" is published in London in a book edited by and possibly written by Thomas Ravenscroft
1915 Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford manufactures its 1 millionth automobile at the River Rouge plant in Detroit
- 1927 Hermann Goerner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with the soles of his feet
- 1928 First use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital)
1931 Christ the Redeemer statue opens, standing 30 meters high (98 ft) on top of Mount Corcovado, overlooking Rio de Janeiro, built by engineer Heitor da Silva Costa
United Nations Speech
1960 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
- 1975 Archbishop Oliver Plunkett, martyred in 1681, is canonized in Rome, becoming the first Irish-born saint in seven centuries
- 1977 Psychic Romark attempts to drive blindfolded and crashes into a police van
- 1979 The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurs in Guam in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip
- 1999 The Day of Six Billion is proclaimed as the 6 billionth living human in the world is born
- 2016 James Charles (17) becomes the first male face of makeup label CoverGirl
- 2018 Alexandra Trusova sets a world record as the first female figure skater to land a quadruple Lutz at the Junior Grand Prix in Armenia [1]
- 2019 California becomes the first US state to pass a law banning the sale and manufacture of new fur products
Eliud Kipchoge
2019 Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya becomes the first to run a marathon in under 2 hours (1:59:40) in Vienna, Austria; not a race by strict definition, using pacesetters and a pace laser on a modified course
- 2023 Roman scrolls burned in Mt. Vesuvius eruption at Herculaneum are read for the first time after a computer science student develops a machine-learning algorithm; the first word deciphered is "purple" [1]
Columbus a Spanish Jew?
2024 Spanish researchers, after studying genetic material, reveal Christopher Columbus is probably Spanish and Jewish and born in Valencia, not an Italian from Genoa as he claimed [1]
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